Archive for the 'advertising' Category

Sugar and (old) Spice

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

These aren’t exactly new, but the Bruce Campbell spots for Old Spice are pretty interesting. In one, Campbell lures a bevy of mod beauties by playing a lounge version of “Hungry Like the Wolf” in a room filled with mantiques. In the other, he’s clad in a double-breasted blazer, pacing around an equally retro-butch study. […]

Vice principles

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

I swung by the Vice party last night, which had been last-minute moved to the Elk’s Lodge, which by this point in the week has a distinctive post-party odor. I’m sure it got all crazy and “Girls Gone Wild” later in the night, but when I got there, it was mostly just an orgy of […]

I see a Volkswagen in your future

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

The Volkswagen Eos, apparently named for some goddess of dawn, has among its promotional web presences a virtual tarot-reading site. On the one hand, I find this totally surreal. On the other hand, I can’t stop playing with it.
Judging from the aesthetics of the site and the buddy-buddy way that the female narrator speaks […]

God, I could use a drink

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

I truly, madly, deeply love the city of Houston, but whenever I tell folks in Austin that, they tend to get all, “Bah! Traffic! Rednecks! Shopping malls!” or some shit. But, then things like this Jesus billboard happen, and I feel vindicated. Do you see that people? That right there is some really savvy, funny, […]

Not Just For A Few

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Recently, I realized not quite everyone has seen “VD is for Everybody,” this completely insane spot-on brilliant Ad Council public service announcement featuring such brilliant characters as a baby, a grocer, and a pregnant knitter.
Combining appealing imagery of attractive folks with an infectious ditty, the PSA does little to invoke terror. The general tone […]